Okay so this story came to my whilst I was falling asleep last night and I hope you all like it, its different from all my other stories. Damon and Elena are both human, they are both 18, Stefan is also human and is Damon's younger 17 year old brother. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!
"Okay class, given that f(x)= sinx cos^3x, obtain f'(x)"
There was silence amongst the class room as every student grew quiet, nobody in the class dared to look up in fear of getting called upon. Everybody tried their hardest to look busy solving the problem even though none of them had a clue what they were doing. None but one. A persistent hand in the front row was waving madly about in the air, desperate to be called upon. Attached to the hand, a girl with doe eyes hidden behind huge glasses, her hair scrapped back in a tight bun and determination shading her features, as disappointment crossed the math's teachers face the hand only grew more desperate to answer.
"Okay Elena, enlighten us with the answer" the grave voice of Mrs McKay sighed.
"That would be cos^4x - 3cos^2x sin^2x, Miss" the girl squeaked.
"Correct again, dear" the teacher said. Everybody in the class groaned, leave it to know-it-all Elena Gilbert to put the class to shame by knowing the answer. The bell rung then, a shrill shriek and everybody begun to pack up.
"Everyone, remember that your homework assignment is due tomorrow, have a good day!" The teacher called. As everyone filed out of the classroom Elena Gilbert stayed behind, taking her time to pack up her text books, wanting to avoid the mad rush of the pupils desperate to go home. It wasn't as if Elena got bullied or picked on, yes many of her peers did not like her simply because she was a suck up, a know it all, a nerd but Elena was too open-minded to take any shit from them. Their opinion didn't bother Elena anyway, they could think whatever they wanted, she didn't care.
"Come on man, I want to get away from this place!" Tyler Lockwood moaned as he gripped onto his best friend, Damon Salvatore's shoulders and led him towards the door.
"Yeah, I just have to speak to Mrs McKay about this math's assignment." Damon replied, easily brushing away Tyler's hands from his shoulders.
"You not done it yet?" Tyler laughed "me neither, we can be screwed together."
"Yeah ha-ha" Damon said dryly "I'm just going to tell her my excuse"
"Alright buddy, we're still hitting the grill tonight but, right?"
"Yeah, course man. I'll be there at five, as usual."
"Cool, I hope Caroline will be there again."
"Man, you gotta get over this Forbes-chick. She's not interested, she's dating that Klaus guy from uptown."
"My good friend, there's no such thing as not interested when it comes to me." Tyler smirked, raising his eyebrows.
"There is when she goes to an all-girls school on the other side of town, only dates posh guys and has told you to your face to leave her alone."
"I love me some hard-to-get girls." Damon just rolled his eyes in respond. "Anyway, she's been down here a lot more recently… any thoughts why?"
"She's not interested, Tyler."
"We'll see." he grinned, cheekily "Anyway, good luck with telling that bitch your excuse"
"Thanks." Damon murmured as he retreated back through the crowds of students filling out the school, nodding his head at everybody who said hi to him. He groaned inwardly as he thought of Tyler crushing on the posh girl, he cared for his best friend and he didn't want him to embarrass himself. Caroline clearly didn't want him but Tyler was persistent that she was interested even though she had told him several times to leave her alone. As he headed towards the math's class Damon couldn't help but wonder how off his friend was to why he was actually headed to speak to the teacher. It wasn't that he hadn't done it, on the contrary, Damon's math's assignment had been finished for weeks and handed in, he had been meaning to ask Mrs McKay if she'd marked it yet but it had completely slipped his mind as he left the classroom moments earlier. He had his bad boy, didn't care about anything image to uphold and being smart at math's did not coincide with that therefore meaning he had to ask the teacher in private what his results were.
As he headed into the classroom he collided smack bang with a petite person, a few strands had escaped her tight bun, framing her face. As she dropped her books, her glasses fell lopsided and she struggled to maintain picking up her books, fixing her glasses and tucking the fallen wisps of hair behind her ear all at the same time.
"Hey, hey, easy" Damon smirked as he bend down to pick up her books for her. He neatly straightened out the books and handed them back to her, she had now fixed her glasses but a few hairs were still falling over her eyes. Damon gently pushed it back and gave her a smile.
"Thank you" she huffed, clearly not very grateful for his help. He had never saw this girl before in his life but he recognized her voice from his seat in the back of the classroom. Elena Gilbert. The only person in his full year group who was better at math's than he was, not that he'd admit to anyone that he was good at math's, who knows what that would do to his reputation. As Damon was lost in thought about this girl he never noticed her scarper away from him until the door at the end of the corridor slammed shut, he was then brought back to reality and gave the open door of the classroom a swift knock.
"Come in, Damon" Mrs McKay smiled as she looked up from her marking. "Here for your assignment grade I presume?"
Damon nodded. He liked Mrs McKay, he really did. Most students thought she was a moody old hag whose life's purpose was to allocate homework and ruin everyone's social life but they were way off. Mrs McKay was a sweet lady whose husband was suffering with cancer, she devoted a lot of time to her children and grandchildren, she was only moody with their class due to the amount of imbeciles in it, honestly? Damon couldn't blame her, the class was ridiculous and he seriously wondered why most people hadn't been dropped levels yet.
"Well Damon, once again you have proved yourself exceptionally. You got 86% overall." Damon bit his cheek to hide his smile, he was proud of himself, he had worked hard on this assignment and it had paid off.
"Now I've only saw one other assignment but I predict that you've done better than most of the class." The teacher grinned.
"Who else's did you mark?" Damon asked, already knowing the answer.
"I'm sorry, Damon, I'm afraid I can't tell you that."
"Did they do better than me?"
Mrs McKay hesitated before answering "I can't tell you that either, Damon. That isn't my place to say."
Damon nodded and smiled at the math's teacher "Well thank you, Miss. I hope we can keep these grades to ourselves as usual."
The teacher laughed "Of course, Damon but I don't really know why you don't like to tell people. Being intelligent isn't something to be ashamed of."
"It is in my world Miss." Damon responded.
The teacher just shook her head in reply and waved him away "Have a good day, Damon. I'll see you in class tomorrow."
Damon nodded and ducked out the classroom, rushing a little. It was nearly half past four and if he didn't hurry, he'd be late meeting Tyler and the guys at the grill.
"Down in Mystic Falls 2nite, at the grill, come out x" Elena's phone buzzed with a text message from her friend, Caroline Forbes.
"Can't, have homework, sorry x" She quickly replied back.
"Please, me and Bon haven't saw u in so long x"
"Maybe another time x"
It was a lie. Elena didn't have any homework due, it was all completed and handed in. Her math's assignment due tomorrow had been handed in last week, she had received 91% and was rather proud as she had put a lot of work into it. However, she did not want to go out to the grill. The grill was were all her peers hung out and being with her two best friends with all their beauty and confidence didn't sound appealing in the slightest. Elena appreciated how ever since she'd met Caroline and Bonnie during summer when she'd stayed with her Aunt Jenna uptown that they'd made an effort to come down to Mystic Falls to see her. Not just her, they came down so Bonnie could stare at the "hot guys" from Mystic Falls High and to see other friends that they'd met down there, Anna, Katherine and Lexi but Elena was their best friend and they always tried to persuade her to go out with them. Sometimes she did but never the grill, they would go to lunch or dinner together or she'd go stay with her aunt some weekends and they'd go out there. Nobody from her school went uptown which was always a huge bonus.
"Yh sure." Caroline texted back and Elena could tell she was pissed and she had every right to be, this was the third time this week she'd blew them off. They both went to a private all-girls school and didn't get out much but with all their exams nearly over - for they took different exams from Elena's school - they had been down in Mystic Falls a lot more than usual. Elena knew if she kept saying no they'd eventually give up and stop asking her and that was the last thing she wanted, they were her best friends, she loved them dearly but the embarrassment of everyone from her school seeing her with them, basking in their glory whilst she looked hideous in comparison was too much to bear. She would be humiliated.
Elena sighed and removed her school clothes in aid of something more comfortable. Her knee-length pleated school skirt and thick cotton tights even though it was in high 80's almost every day in Mystic Falls did nothing for her. The shapeless long-sleeved white blouse she wore hid her toned arms and hid her body away, with it buttoned up and covered with a tie, nobody would ever see the perfectly rounded breasts below them, the sports bras that she wore every day made sure of that. Elena Gilbert knew that the clothes she wore were dreadful and she knew that all her peers laughed at her thick framed glasses which covered half her face, she knew that they thought her thick brown hair always shoved back from her face in a tight bun was ridiculous, she knew this but she didn't care. There wasn't anyone in Mystic Falls that she wanted to impress, there might have been once but definitely not any more. Everything about this town was awful and Elena couldn't wait to leave, she would concentrate on her studies and do the best she could in school so she could get out of this wretched town forever. Maybe she'd go to New York, LA or Florida, as far away from Mystic Falls as possible.
"Elena dear, time for dinner." her moms soft voice called from the bottom of the stairs.
"Just a minute!" Elena shouted as she pulled on a pair of red shorts and a tank top, she freed her hair from the tight bun and no longer needed her glasses due to not needing to read anything at home. Elena Gilbert out of school was very different to Elena Gilbert in school. She headed downstairs to the smell of her mom's home cooked lasagna, her favorite.
"So any plans for tonight?" her father, Grayson asked her as she took her place at the table.
"Nope, Caroline and Bonnie asked me to meet them at the grill but I've got homework. Where's Jer?" Elena quickly changed the subject.
"Oh he's out, he has a date." her mother sighed.
"Who with?"
"That horrible Vicki Donovan." she replied, bitterly.
"Now now Miranda, Vicki's had a hard life, we mustn't judge her for her past mistakes. Who knows, Jeremy could straighten her out." Grayson frowned.
"No, he wont Grayson! Nobody can help that girl, she'll just pull Jeremy down with her, she's no good for my son."
"Now look, her brother Matt turned out to be a fine boy, she's just trying to find her place-" Elena tuned out the rest of her parents light hearted argument, grateful the attention was diverted away from her, she tucked into her dinner.
"Elena," Grayson said after finishing the conversation with her mother "You work too hard, are you sure you cant take the night off and go out with your friends."
Inwardly Elena laughed at the irony of the situation, in any other family it would be the teenager begging to go out and the parents telling her to do her homework but in her household that was not the case. Her parents hated that she never went out, they wanted her to have a life but Elena just wasn't that kind of person. She preferred staying in and writing in her diary than going out with her friends, preferred movie nights to parties, Elena Gilbert wasn't a typical teenager.
"No, dad." Elena responded to his question, pushing her chair away from the table and standing up. "It's due tomorrow."
"I told you Andie, I had fun last week but that was it. There's nothing more to be said!" Damon hissed at Andie Star as she cornered him in the men's room. "Now, if you don't mind!"
"Oh c'mon Damon, there's something between us. You know there is."
"Andie, go" But she didn't listen, pushing him up against the back wall in the men's room and pressing herself into him.
"You like it when I do this, it turns you on." Andie smirked, breathing into his ear. "C'mon, just take me right here, you want to. I know you do, you cant resist me."
"Andie, get the fuck off me!" Damon growled, roughly shoving her off him. "Now listen. There is NOTHING between us, ok? You think I actually like you? You're nothing but a cheap skank, a mistake, Andie I couldn't give a fuck about you." It was harsh but some things needed to be said, Andie Star was the school slut. With her fake blonde hair, her - what he recently discovered - extra padded bra and her stick-thing-no-ass figure the girl was endless disappointment. Damon actually thought that she must be good at sex since she had nothing else going for her but that also turned out to be a disappointment. She was easy, that was all she got going for her. Damon regretted every second he'd spent with her but now the bitch wouldn't leave him alone, even now with what he'd just said she still followed him out the bathroom like she was the dog and he was the bone. Damon laughed at the irony, the dog part was completely spot on.
"Please, baby." she pleaded behind him, placing her hands on his waist.
He turned around and glared at her "Take the hint, baby. I'm not interested. I was bored and you were there, that's all. Now leave." He then left her standing there and walked over to where his friends were - Tyler and his cousin Mason, Lee, his brother Stefan and Matt Donovan were at the bar surrounded with girls from school. As he walked up to them, all the girls turned to look at him, Damon ignored them all.
"A beer." he called to Matt who was also the barman even though he spent most of his time over in our corner, talking and serving. His boss didn't complain though, we were the most busy part of the grill.
"Drinking on a week night, you alright man?" Matt asked as he handed Damon the beer.
"Nearly got raped by a dog in the men's room." Damon tilted his head to where Andie was and Matt laughed.
"I'm not even that surprised, she's been obsessed with you since you gave her the slightest bit of attention last week."
"Hey, it's not my fault I'm good in the sack" Damon laughed. "and I didn't think she'd start hounding me everywhere I went." He then resorted to pulling out his iPhone and showing Matt the private mails from Andie. "Fifteen times she's mailed me man and I didn't reply, thank fuck I didn't give her my number or she'd be phoning me 24/7"
Matt laughed again, "It must be hard being you" he said sarcastically.
"I can't help my good looks, can I? What can I say, I'm irresistible."
Every girl surrounding them giggled at Damon's statement. It was true though, Damon's dark raven locks and perfect blue eyes were enough to make any girl weak at the knees, not to include his toned body and large biceps. Damon Salvatore was every girls dream man and by God didn't he know it.
"So man, is that Caroline girl here?" Damon said to Tyler.
"Yeah over in the corner with her friend." Tyler muttered.
"Then go talk to her then!"
Tyler murmured something under his breath that Damon couldn't quite hear.
"What was that?" he asked, noticing how Tyler was blushing. He didn't respond. Damon looked up in help only to notice everyone trying to hold back their laughter, he looked at Stefan for answers.
"He already did," Stefan burst out laughing and so did everyone else "But she rejected him again."
"Shut up!" Tyler was now turning a deep shade of red. "like you could do better."
"Wait… who's the one with a girlfriend here?" Stefan taunted "Oh that's right, me"
"Would hardly call Katherine your girlfriend, she clearly wears the trousers in your relationship."
Stefan just laughed "Don't care, least I can get a girl."
Tyler stood up, his short temper shining, his fists clench. "Want to repeat that?" he shouted, a little too loudly. The full of the grill turned to look at our group.
"I can get a girl." Stefan sneered.
I jumped in front of Tyler just before his fist collided with Stefan, meaning I got the impact of his fist
"Man, what the hell!" I glared, rubbing my cheek. "Calm the fuck down."
"Let your brother fight his own battles, stop getting involved!" Tyler hissed.
"Ty, let's go get you calmed down" I sighed leading him by the shoulders out of the grill. "And when we're at it, we're going to work on your punch 'cause that sucked."
Tyler didn't protest but instead sped up and headed out of the grill door.
"She looked disgusted, did you see her?" Tyler bellowed, punching a nearby wall.
"See who?"
"Caroline! She fucking looked at me like I was shit on her shoe when you were leading me out of the grill!"
"Of course she did you idiot, she's from uptown! Uptown girls don't fight and near do the guys they date."
"I like her, man. I really do."
"Then you're gonna have to become the kind of guy she likes" Damon sighed.
"I'm going to." Tyler replied, determination in his eyes.
The next day at school was reasonably boring for Damon up until lunch. It was raining outside and everyone had retreated into the cafeteria instead of eating outside like usual. In there, Damon's table was restless. Whilst the guys talked about their plans for the weekend, the girls who sat with them gossiped about other girls. Damon's head circled the café, looking at different groups of people, people he hadn't noticed he existed until now. He saw the girl he'd bumped into yesterday in math's, Elena, perched at the edge of a table with a small group of girls, she seemed to be a part of the group yet didn't seem interested in whatever they were talking about. Damon had never saw any of the girls she was sitting with and therefore categorized them similar to Elena, nerds. Tyler caught him staring and followed his gaze.
"Hey, that's that really brainy chick in our math's class." he pointed. Damon nodded in response. "now that's one girl that you couldn't get to sleep with you."
Damon turned to face him "Oh, really?" he raised his eyebrows.
"No way, that girls a real prude. She'll still be a virgin when she's like 40 or something."
"Oh you never know, a little Salvatore charm and she could be all mines."
"You confident in that?"
"Yep."
"Confident enough to place a bet?"
"How much?"
"I'll give you $100 if you can sleep with that girl before the decade dance next month, if you loose, you pay me."
Damon considered the offer for a moment. It was a good bet and he was sure he could win.
"Deal." he smirked.
"Deal." Tyler repeated, a flicker of excitement in his eyes.
Okay so how was it? Should I continue? Do you like Elena as a nerd and Damon as the hot bad boy? Don't worry, Elena will be coming out of her shell soon! Next chapter (if you want me to continue) will be Damon's attempts to woe Elena in order to win the bet. Review please!